Why not ask for volunteers with known AGA ratings to play games in KGS under
tournament conditions with the top bots? You can use the KGS playing interface
without trusting the KGS rating system.
Terry McIntyre <[email protected]>
Unix/Linux Systems Administration
Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice.
>________________________________
>From: David Doshay <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 6:57 PM
>Subject: Re: [Computer-go] KGS highest rank Bot
>
>In my 3 visits to the Cotsen Open, I had only 2 people decline to play against
>my program. One traveled from a remote location so he felt that his travel
>budget was better spent doing something he could not do online from home, and
>the other was a parent of a child who simply rejected the idea completely. The
>child wanted to play against the program, and did so later after the official
>games.
>
>At this time games played against bots do not have any effect upon your AGA
>ranking. The problem from the perspective of the guy who was in charge of the
>AGA ranking system is that there is no uniform way of giving a program its
>rating. He is completely against using KGS ratings because on the internet
>people can hide behind fake names and can game their ratings in various ways.
>
>Cheers,
>David
>
>
>
>On 9, Aug 2011, at 2:52 PM, Michael Williams wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Don Dailey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> Even though I wanted to play my programs in these tournaments, I was
>> sympathetic to the "humans" point of view.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Are you accusing them of being androids or something? :P
>>
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